Senior Distinguished Engineer: Cloud & AI Platform

Capital One; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,100 - 307,200; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to drive architectural excellence and AI-native engineering practices across Finance Technology teams. You will shape the strategic technical vision, decompose complex problems into actionable plans, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, trustworthy platforms for liquidity management and predictive analytics.

The role emphasizes collaborating with Capital Markets and Financial Planning Technology, advancing AI-native standards, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7+ years in software engineering, architecture, distributed HPC/ML systems.
• Experience with full ML lifecycle and cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Data engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Articulate a bold technical vision for your domain.
• Decompose complex problems into practical solutions.
• Ensure quality of technical design and implementation.
• Lead non-functional requirements like performance and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and coach the tech community.
• Lead PoC development for AI frameworks and patterns.
• Collaborate across Finance Technology towers for cross-domain input.
• Champion AIOps practices for reliability and automated remediation.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud computing

Data engineering

ML systems design

Python/Java/Go

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in CS/Applied Mathematics

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Scala

JavaScript/TypeScript

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to drive architectural excellence and AI-native engineering practices across Finance Technology teams. You will shape the strategic technical vision, decompose complex problems into actionable plans, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, trustworthy platforms for liquidity management and predictive analytics.

The role emphasizes collaborating with Capital Markets and Financial Planning Technology, advancing AI-native standards, and